Edwards v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• reversing trial court's refusal to quash an indictment for extortion where the defendant, pursuant to an agreement, resigned from his position in exchange for immunity from prosecution
• reversing trial court's refusal to quash an indictment for extortion where the defendant, pursuant to an agreement, resigned from his position in exchange for immunity from prosecution
• reversing trial court's refusal to quash an indictment for extortion where the defendant, pursuant to an agreement, resigned from his position in exchange for immunity from prosecution
• reversing trial court's refusal to quash an indictment for extortion where the defendant, pursuant to an agreement, resigned from his position in exchange for immunity from prosecution
• reversing conviction when a plea bargain was violated and the defendant was convicted because “[t]he integrity of the state’s law enforcement and prosecutorial powers is seriously impu[g]ned by any lack of good faith in complying with plea bargaining agreements”
• trial court 19 abused its discretion in not quashing the defendant’s indictment in light of the defendant’s detrimental reliance on an agreement with the district attorney

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

23 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• McFee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-07-22· cited 451×
• Reynolds v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-03-09· cited 127×
• Callins v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2008-02-21· cited 65×
• Moody v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-06-11· cited 34×
• Garlotte v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2005-04-19· cited 21×
• Wright v. McAdory
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-12-07· cited 20×
• Rush v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-11-18· cited 16×
• State v. Adams County Circuit Court
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-03-25· cited 14×
• Myers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2000-11-07· cited 13×
• Danley v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-03-08· cited 10×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2004-08-24· cited 4×
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2001-01-16· cited 4×
• Bell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2014-04-01· cited 4×
• Singleton v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1993-05-20· cited 4×
• Vance v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2001-06-26· cited 3×
• Harvey Williams, Jr. v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2014-12-11· cited 2×
• Callins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2007-04-17· cited 1×
• Kline v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1999-03-23· cited 1×
• Kenneth Moody v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-03-26
• William Rush v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-08-28

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Wiley v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-01-04· cited 274×
• Boyington v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1980-09-10· cited 59×
• Salter v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1980-07-30· cited 36×